From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:55:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Remove --allow-empty from the git-commit synopsis
Message-ID: <201004072055.30017.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <1270661327-28078-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

On Mittwoch, 7. April 2010, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
> @@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
>  [verse]
>  'git commit' [-a | --interactive] [-s] [-v] [-u<mode>] [--amend]
> [--dry-run] [(-c | -C) <commit>] [-F <file> | -m <msg>] [--reset-author]
> -	   [--allow-empty] [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>]
> -	   [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>] [--status | --no-status] [--]
> -	   [[-i | -o ]<file>...]
> +	   [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>] [--date=<date>]
> +	   [--cleanup=<mode>] [--status | --no-status] [--] [[-i | -o ]<file>...]

IMO the option should not be removed from the synopsis section of the 
documentation. I would agree that it is removed from the output of 'git 
commit -h', and I think this was the original intent when someone (Junio?) 
suggested to remove it.

-- Hannes